world war, 1939-1945

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.

Bud and Jubal Shoemaker's family are Quakers in the small town of Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, during World War Two whose opposition to fighting creates division within the community when Bud declares himself a conscientious objector.

Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.

English teenagers Sophie, Marina, and Quigs explore an abandoned World War II air-raid shelter and emerge into the Blitz in 1940s London, where they must find a way to not only stay alive but get back to their own time.

Recounts the true story of a group of Allied airmen who planned a daring escape from a German prison camp during World War II.

After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

In 1944, eighteen-year-old Bernadette Thompson leaves her Iowa home and attends training camp for the Women Airforce Service Pilots in Sweetwater Texas, where she hones her flying skills and befriends women of different backgrounds.

Contains eyewitness accounts from people who experienced World War II as soldiers and civilians, provides information on the history of events and its aftermath, and includes photographs, maps, time lines, and footage on DVD.

Examines the role of women in World War II, discussing volunteer activities in the Allied nations, jobs filled by women in the labor force, Land Girls, women in the military, and efforts to keep homes and families thriving.

Describes what it was like for Jews who lived or died during the events of the Holocaust.